In traditional commerce, brokers act as middlemen between customers and providers, aggregating, repackaging and adding value to products, services or information. In the broadest ...
This paper introduces a mechanism for establishing policies for electronic commerce in a uni ed and secure manner. A commercial policy can be viewed as the embodiment of a contrac...
The design and development of open multi-agent systems (MAS) is a key aspect in agent research. We advocate that they can be realised as electronic institutions. In this paper we ...
Software agents offer a promise to change electronic commerce trading by helping traders to purchase products based on their interests and preferences. E-commerce systems are incr...
In this paper we propose electronic contract negotiation — a sub-part of the more general area of electronic commerce — as an example application for mobile agents. We start b...